Chap. 141.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions from jury service.
[S B 140]
Approved March 15, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-nine hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5985. The governor and lieutenant-governor of the State,
the members-of the general assembly while actually in session, practic-
ing attorneys, licensed practicing physicians, duly licensed optomet-
rists, dentists, officers of any court, telephone and telegraph opera
tors actually employed as such, pilots licensed under the laws of the
United States or this State, the Present and Vice-bresies dent and Vice-President of the
United States, the members of both houses of congress and their re-
spective officers, but only while such houses of conzress are actually
in session, custom house officers, all postmasters, post officers, post
riders and stage drivers, all mariners actually employed in the service
of any citizeft or merchant within the United States, the secretary of
the Commonwealth, and attorney general, the treasurer, auditor, of
public accounts, comptroller, members of the State corporation com-
mission, the commissioner of agriculture, the superintendent of public
instruction, the clerk of both houses of the general assembly, but only

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while such houses are actually in session, the judge of any court, all
professers, tutors and pupils of public seminaries, while such public
seminaries are actually in session, all ministers of the gospel licensed
to preach according to the rules of their sect, sheriffs, constables, all
persons—siluile actualy engaged in harvesting or securing grain, po-
tatoes or hay or in cutting OF Secmmng Tobacco, keepers of the county
and corporation jails, superintendents and servants of public hospitals
and lunatic asylums, the superintendent of the penitentiary and his
assistants and the persons composing the guard, the police in cities
and towns, and all ferrymen necessarily and personally employed in or
at any ferry established by law, undertakerg who pay a license tax as

such, and their regularly emplo ts, and the active officers
and members of the Virginia national-auard, and the Virginia naval

militia, and contributing members of the Virginia national guard, who
have contributed not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars per annum,
shall be exempt from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases, but
the active regularly employed and paid members of the fire depart-
ment of any city or town shall not be required to serve at any time, nor
shall any registered pharmacist while engaged in the practice of his
profession be required to serve, nox_any fruit grower while actively
engaged in harvesting his crops. * And the citizens on Tangier and
Saxis islands in Accomac county and of Broad Water and Cobb is-,
lands in the county of Northampton shall be exempt from jury service,
except service on grand juries. , _